Heading to Aged Care…

Reverse the roles… this could be Mum visiting me in a Residential Aged Care Facility… (image from Google, not of my mother and I!) Some time ago Kay Bransford asked me this question: “We recently had to force my parents into Assisted Living. Everyone around them tried to recommend changes to get them the assistance they needed and…

A dementia carer’s guilt

My husband and I have talked many times about the guilt we feel for having placed his father into residential aged care, and in particular into high care for the last 5 months of his life. The term ‘high care’ is a bit of an anomaly, as many ‘homes’ simply do not offer care for…